cage vs limit

cage

verb
  • To restrict someone's movement or creativity. 

  • To immobilize an artificial horizon. 

  • To confine in a cage; to put into and keep in a cage. 

  • To track individual responses to direct mail, either (advertising) to maintain and develop mailing lists or (politics) to identify people who are not eligible to vote because they do not reside at the registered addresses. 

noun
  • The catcher's wire mask. 

  • A regular graph that has as few vertices as possible for its girth. 

  • In killer sudoku puzzles, an irregularly-shaped group of cells that must contain a set of unique digits adding up to a certain total, in addition to the usual constraints of sudoku. 

  • An automobile. 

  • The area from which competitors throw a discus or hammer. 

  • The passenger compartment of a lift. 

  • The drum on which the rope is wound in a hoisting whim. 

  • An outer framework of timber, enclosing something within it. 

  • Something that hinders freedom. 

  • The goal. 

  • An enclosure made of bars, normally to hold animals. 

  • A skeleton frame to limit the motion of a loose piece, such as a ball valve. 

  • A wirework strainer, used in connection with pumps and pipes. 

limit

verb
  • To restrict; not to allow to go beyond a certain bound, to set boundaries. 

  • To have a limit in a particular set. 

noun
  • A restriction; a bound beyond which one may not go. 

  • The cone of a diagram through which any other cone of that same diagram can factor uniquely. 

  • A determining feature; a distinguishing characteristic. 

  • Fixed limit. 

  • The final, utmost, or furthest point; the border or edge. 

  • The first group of riders to depart in a handicap race. 

  • A person who is exasperating, intolerable, astounding, etc. 

  • A value to which a sequence converges. Equivalently, the common value of the upper limit and the lower limit of a sequence: if the upper and lower limits are different, then the sequence has no limit (i.e., does not converge). 

  • Any of several abstractions of this concept of limit. 

adj
  • Being a fixed limit game. 

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